Luis Brande loves baseball, adores teaching, kayaking, fishing, eating and the outdoors. But now Brande, a 60-year-old father of four, husband, brother and son, can no longer do any of those things as ALS has robbed him of all his pleasures.

Kids just started school, daytime temperatures are still scorching hot, yet some stores have brought out the holiday merchandise for shoppers to peruse and, they hope, buy months ahead of Christmas time.

A veteran Miami-Dade police sergeant bonded out of jail and is now under house arrest. James H. Edwards III is facing charges after allegedly bringing a teenage boy to his home and trying to take advantage of him.

A popular and dangerous trend is making the rounds no the internet; teens are dousing themselves in alcohol and then setting themselves on fire. It’s called “fire challenge” and one is being treated in Miami.